« Tu n’as rien vu à Constantinople » : Thackeray au pays des harems by Laurent Bury

“…., the reader also finds the usual Thackerayan phenomenon of split personality, the narrator and the illustrator being one and the same person. …”
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Bestiaire en marge by Cristina Álvares

“…Centered on the meeting of the knight Yvain and a lion, this roman thematizes human animality and gives the human-animal relationship a narrative configuration. We argue that this configuration is a matter of metonymic contiguity (or continuity) rather than of metaphoric techniques typical of the symbolic thought, and that metonymic figuration favours a dynamic of liminalities, passages and exchanges. …”
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Roaming the Mountain Forests: Wandering to Perfect the Capacitive Body by Frédérick Guyon

“…By structuring space and time in an orderly universe, mythical narratives give meaning to this roaming practice.These social experiments are analysed from a roaming anthropology standpoint, an approach which combines spatial, cultural, body, emotional and spiritual dimensions. …”
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La nécessité du pays by Damien Sans

“…When we free the landscape from the aesthetic straightjacket in which it has been imprisoned (at least in France) by the great narratives of its origins (Briffaud, 2014), it becomes possible to embrace the diversity of perceptions and relationships formed between people and their environments. …”
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Specular Metamorphoses: Harriet Prescott Spofford’s “The Ray of Displacement” by Asunción López-Varela

“…Spofford offers a hybrid narrative which fuses philanthropy, ethical concerns, and the power of sympathy, typically attributed to the female gender, with scientific forms of perceiving transcendence dominated by male consciousness. …”
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Le Roman de la Rose, de l’édition aux manuscrits by Philippe Frieden

“…In two centuries’ time, through its various copies, the narrative by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun was constantly modified, and many additions were made over time. …”
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Township Politics by Mpho Moalamedi

“…By humanizing the historical narrative through the voices of ordinary citizens and community leaders, the book succeeds in providing a nuanced understanding of the challenges and triumphs inherent in civic engagement within South African townships. …”
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In, Out, and Beyond: Dislocation, Contamination and the Redemptive Power of Womanhood in California, In-doors and Out by Eliza W. Farnham, 1856 by Claire Sorin

“…Her 1856 account offers a unique insight into the early and essentially male phase of California’s settlement, as well as a complex narrative of personal adaptation to a new environment. …”
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Sankofa (Haile Gerima, 1993) : la mémoire de l’esclavage dans la conscience diasporique by Delphine Letort

“…Based on an original script, written by the filmmaker himself, Sankofa is a slave narrative which, however, has no historical value since it was developed through creative writing. …”
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The Love Trap. Romanticization practices of the Italian generations of the 90s by Fulvio Cozza

“…Utilizing Ernesto De Martino’s conceptual framework, I describe that for the transitional generation born around 1990, caught between precariousness and the triumphant narratives of their predecessors, romantic discourse serves as a shield against existential annihilation by the uncontrollable forces of the universe. …”
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Fragments of Lost Origins by Pekka Tuominen

“…This research report explores how various historical narratives of Turkishness are related to spatial divisions of the city and different frameworks of belonging and argues that a notion of an authentic self has become crucial in defining urbanity in Istanbul. …”
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Camp Transvestism in Ackroyd’s Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem (1994) by Justine GONNEAUD

“…Secondly, it examines the camp aesthetics of cross-dressing in the novel, a sensibility that challenges narrative categories and literary genres by reappropriating the codes of high and low culture. …”
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Spectres photographiques : quand la photographie hante la littérature by Marie-Jeanne Zenetti

“…Writers who draw their inspiration from photography (either by trying to define it or by inserting photographs into narratives) often relate it to what disappears and comes back again, to loss and haunting memories. …”
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Eyes of identification: challenges and opportunities in leveraging highly visible, multiple-level histories by Debra Rosser, Shurlee Swain

“…Histories of out of home 'care' have traditionally fallen into four categories: in-house productions, commissioned histories; academic studies and survivor narratives. Each of these is problematic. A more inclusive approach, which encourages a close relationship between historian and those who lived the experience, is offered through projects arising from Australian government enquiries into indigenous, migrant and Australian-born children in care. …”

Carolingian Traditions and New Beginnings : The Coronation of Rudolph I of Upper Burgundy by Andrea Hauff

“…L’attention se focalise d’abord sur les origines de Rodolphe Ier et de sa famille, avant de porter un regard sur les sources narratives témoignant du couronnement de Rodolphe Ier en 888, en particulier, la chronique de Réginon de Prüm et les Annales Vedastini. …”
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De l’agentivité mythique et incantatoire by Laurent Fontaine

“…Next, I will study the agency strictly internal to the narrative, by proposing a method of exploring the two versions that makes it possible not only to establish a comparative and general table of their principal acts, but also to analyse the effects and repercussions between these acts. …”
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D’Emma Bovary à Gemma Bovery : une approche traductologique by Ilaria Vitali

“…Within this field, the interpretive paradigm will be the one proposed by Lance Hewson, based on two levels: the “voice effects” (translational choices that modify the voice of the narrator or characters), and the “interpretational effects” (translational choices that favour different interpretive paths). …”
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Representing Climate Change through the Lens of Environmental Security: Thirty Years of the Department of Defense Defining a Threat Multiplier and Military Resilience by Michael STRICOF

“…By tracing the Department of Defense’s response to environmental risks over more than three decades, a consistently refined narrative emerges which allows us to understand defense climate priorities, regardless of varying political leadership.…”
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Rougissement littéraire by Ina Schenker

“…It shows how literature in particular has the potential to understand shame not only as an emotion, but as a narrative itself, and to break shame down into individual factors that motivate action. …”
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"Seeing the voices": Egyptian Jews from one shore to another by Michèle Baussant

“…Based on a "retroactive ethnography," it relies on work with memory and the memory of the Jews of Egypt encountered both as actors and narrators and is interested in the crossed constructions of the presence and absence of Jews and Egyptians. …”
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